[Reader-list] Call for Submission to Sarai Reader 02

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta]

Call for Submission to Sarai Reader 02 
Word Limit : 2000-4000 words
Last date of Submission - 5th December, 2001
Respond with ideas, immediately, to : shuddha at sarai.net

TO ALL PEOPLE IN THE SARAI READER LIST COMMUNITY (READERS/WRITERS/LURKERS)

Dear Readers, 

As you may be aware, this list grew out of a need for a forum to discuss the 
contents of the Sarai Reader 01;The Public Domain, published in February 
2001. One of the key factors that will ensure that the list continues to have 
an active life will be the publication of the Sarai Reader 02.  We, at Sarai 
would like to invite you all to contribute to the content of the second Sarai 
Reader. Just as this list grew out of the first Reader, we would like the 
second (and subsequent) Reader/s, to grow, in large measure, out of the list.

This time, the reader will focus on the theme of 'City:Space/Flow'. This 
thematic focus has been chosen to highlight Sarai's engagement with urban 
space,media,culture & politics. 

We choose to characterize city spaces, not just as metropolitan agglomerates, 
but as   circuits and  concentrations of people, built forms, data, media 
practices, transports, regulations and transgressions around space and 
habitation, and as sites of resistance and invention as well as provocations 
for the explorations of visible and invisible social realities.

THEMES 

We are interested in the way cities connect to each other in global space, in 
migrations and sites of marginality, in histories of neighbourhoods and in 
investigations of urban cultural practices, city ecologies and in accounts or 
analyses of media/technological forms that arise and thrive in city spaces. 

We are particularly interested in accounts of spaces where media forms and 
urban life intersect - such as cinema halls, cybercafes, video game parlours, 
electronic goods markets, and entertainment/leisure districts in cities.

We are also looking for :

evocative reports of everyday city life from across the globe. What is it 
like to wake up in Mexico city, what are the fears stalking the subways of 
New York in the wake of 9/11, what does the din of construction sound like in 
Shanghai, and what are the narratives of war that collect in the Afghan 
refugee settlements in Peshawar or Karachi?  Writing of quality and passion 
on questions such as these will find acceptance in the second Sarai Reader

We are interested in :

first person accounts, or in-depth conversations with city folk - say an 
interview with a call centre worker in New Delhi, or the first person 
narrative of a day trader in Singapore or Mumbai.

in debates around media practices, surveillance, intellectual property 
rights,  free software and forms of cultural and technological intervention 
that challenge dominant media practices. 

in 'little histories' - of radio, of  interventions on the internet, of film 
posters, of street photography, and film viewing.

We are also interested in publishing brief (1000-1500) word profiles of new 
media/urban culture practice and research spaces like Sarai elsewhere in the 
world.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS

Submissions may be scholarly, journalistic, or literary - or a mix of these, 
in the form of essays, papers, interviews or diary entries. All submission, 
unless specifically, solicited must be in English only.

Word Limit : 1500 - 4000 words

Submissions must be sent by e mail in rich text format (rtf) or star-office 
documents. Articles may be accompanied by black and white photographs or 
drawings submitted in a jpeg format.

We urge all writers, to follow the Chicago Manual of Style, (CMS) in terms of 
footnotes, annotations and references, for more details about the CMS, please 
see the Florida State University web page on CMS  style documentation  at 
http://www.fsu.edu/~library/guides/chicago.html

All contributions should be accompanied by a three - four line text 
introducing the author.

All submissions will be read by the editorial collective of the Sarai Reader 
02 before the final selection is made. The editorial collective reserves the 
right not to publish any material sent to it for publication in the Sarai 
Reader on stylistic or editorial grounds. All contributors will be informed 
of the decisions of the editorial collective vis a vis their contribution by 
December 15, 2001.

Copyright for all accepted contributions will remain with the authors, but 
Sarai reserves indefinitely,  the right to place any of the material accepted 
for publication on the public domain in print or electronic forms, and on the 
internet.

Accepted submissions will not be paid for, in order help keep the public 
domain free of commerce, but authors are guaranteed a wide international 
readership. The Reader will be published in print, distributed in India and 
internationally, and will also be uploaded in a pdf form on to the Sarai 
website.

All contributors whose work has been accepted for publication will receive 
two copies of the Reader.

Word Limit : 1500 - 4000 words
Last date for submission - December 5th 2001.
(but please write as soon as possible to shuddha at sarai.net  with a brief 
outline of what you want to write about - this helps in designing the content 
of the reader)
We expect to have the reader published by mid February 2002.

please send in your responses to :
shuddha at sarai.net